Actually FaceID will make it faster to get into your phone. Today if you swipe on a notification, you get prompted to authenticate your fingerprint. Now that st

Actually FaceID will make it faster to get into your phone. Today if you swipe on a notification, you get prompted to authenticate your fingerprint. Now that step is gone -- you just go straight in. As for opening the home screen, I think your worries are misplaced. You have to look at your phone in order to use it, and FaceID is instantaneous and works at sharp angles, so there's no need to unlock it ahead of time. All it does is replace the button press with a swipe. The early reports are that it doesn't feel like a ritual at all. It's more like it just makes the whole authentication step go away.[1] [1] "you get used to not thinking about it very quickly, and when you go back to a Touch ID device, it feels broken that you have to touch the button to unlock the device." https://daringfireball.net/2017/09/iphone_x_event_thoughts_and_observations https://daringfireball.net/2017/09/iphone_x_event_thoughts_a...